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“We didn’t push the Russians to intervene but we knowingly increased the probability that they would... It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap...The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet Union its Vietnam War."
Zbigniew Brzezinski (Advisor to Former President Jimmy Carter)
A recent issue of Newsweek magazine invoked the (…)

By Amira Hass
GAZA - The question "Who is it?" was answered with: "The Israel Defense Forces." Majdi Abed Rabbo, 39, who is a Palestinian Authority (Ramallah) employee and a member of its intelligence apparatus, went down to open the door. Standing there was the son of his neighbors, Mahmoud Daher, and behind him a soldier whose rifle was jammed into Daher’s back. The soldier pushed Daher aside and aimed the rifle at Abed Rabbo.
"He ordered me to pull down my pants. I pulled them down. (…)

While legal perils swirl around George W Bush’s White House lawyers for their role in empowering torturers, Bush will cross an international border—possibly for the first time—as a free and private citizen..
Dinner footwear may be optional By BILL KAUFMANN
I really hope he shows up in the flight suit.
He can also, in good conscience, bring along that banner he once courageously blamed on sailors because this time, his mission really is accomplished.
It’s hard being a stranger to (…)

Goliath

Canada’s Immigration minister [Jason Kenney] threatened to slash funds to the country’s largest Arab organization, despite fears that the cuts would affect its ability to provide services to new immigrants, after its president denounced Canadian politicians for backing Israel’s assault on Gaza...
http://www.guerrillanews.com/headli...
Please urge Canada not to stop funding CAF as political punishment:
Minister of Immigration: Jason Kenney: email kennej@parl.gc.ca
cc: Canadian Arab (…)

Within its borders arguably resides the most corrupt legal system in the United States, if not the world: at one time, to increase the prospect of winning convictions, “training” manuals were circulated in some prosecutors’ offices explaining how to exclude racial minorities from juries; one prosecutor who sent an innocent man to prison later joked about this injustice by boasting, “Anybody can convict a guilty man. It takes talent to convict an innocent one”; an African-American activist (…)

I’ll tell you what-that’s just a bunch of bullsh-all these browsers that ask you to register and then log in-they just collect personal information-what sites do you visit, how long do you surf the net etc,,,do you even think how much this sh is worth?noooo, you probably never ask yourself why is something "free".there’s no such a thing as free-first of all it costs you wasting your time-second of all there are sites out there that pay you money just to use their browser(or fill out surveys (…)

By David Glenn Cox
You know, sometimes I pick up this 21st century quill and electronic rodent ready to charge down some pre-determined path. Here I was, ready to write a very informative piece about past financial collapses all throughout the history of our capitalist enclave, when the demons overtook me. Perhaps demons or maybe a guiding spirit, pointing me down a spiritual path. Oh, fuck it, it’s damn laziness; at least that’s what they called it in high school. But then, what didn’t (…)

When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.
The mere fact that these forces—inimical to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—are legalized by statute laws, sanctified by divine rights, and enforced by political power, in no way justifies their continued existence.
We hold these (…)

Yesterday’s manipulated close above the false bottom at Dow 7552 could not hold, not even for a day, in the wake of unprecedented government handouts and institutional selling that nearly brought the major stock indices to their knees in the final hours of Thursday’s session. The Dow Jones Industrials finished the day at their lowest level since October 9, 2002, prior, even to the start of the Iraq War.
The best the government interlopers (through their proxies at Goldman Sachs, Morgan (…)